Priesemann, Viola, Prof. Dr.

Max Planck Research Group Leader Neural Systems Theory

Since 2022: Professor (W3), Faculty of Physics, Georg August University of Göttingen
Since 2016: Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
01/2017-03/2017: Guest Researcher, Ernst-Strüngmann-Institute, Frankfurt
2014-2016: Bernstein Fellow and Group Leader, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
2013-2014: PostDoc, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
2013: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2008-2013: Research Projects at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France), Caltech
Pasadena, USA), MPI for Brain Research & FIAS (Frankfurt, Germany)

Honours, Grants & Service to the Community

2021: Medaille für naturwissenschaftliche Publizistik der DPG
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medaille_f%C3%BCr_naturwissenschaftliche_Publizistik
Communitas Award of the Max Planck Society
since 2021: Member of the "Junge Akademie"
2020: Offer for a W3 position, faculty of Physics, U Heidelberg (declined)
since 2020: Public outreach and political advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic
since 2020: Member of the Cluster of Excellence: Multiscale Bioimaging
since 2020: Associated to the Max Planck - U of Toronto Centre of Neurophysics
since 2020: Lead-PI in a project of the SPP 2205 “Evolutionary Optimisation of Neuronal
Processing”

Major Research Interests
Neural Networks
Efficient Coding
Dendritic and Synaptic Learning
Information Theory
Statistical Physics
Collective Phenomena
Self-Organization of Computation
Homeostatic Plasticity
Dyadic Interactions
Societal Dynamics
Bayesian Inference

Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.viola-priesemann.de/
Link to my google scholar profile:
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=5oK8Ek4AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

ORCID: 0000-0001-8905-5873